― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Here's what I said in response:
The thing is, White sort of has a point when it comes to culturalcritics falling for works that either a) remind them of themselves orb) congratulate them for their intelligence/taste/whatever. I'm sortof glad to see someone dissect that, actually.
But the mistakes he makes are that a) this is an inevitable part ofcriticism (I'd rather see a critic respond honestly to a work than totry to ignore his/her own impulses in an attempt to be "objective"),and b) he's often so preoccupied by the favorable reception of certainfilms from "bourgie" critics that he's blinded to *any* redeemingquality these films might have, and they thus become unspeakably awfulin his mind. In the end, there's something just as smug andself-satisfied -- if not more so -- about White's brand of populismthan the approach taken by most of his targets.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I haven't seen any of those films yet though.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Has anyone read the journal he edits?
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1897/armondwhiteisntinsane.jpg
― amateurist, Friday, 14 August 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
can't believe that list forgot 'torque', which he will simply not stfu about.
― omar little, Friday, 14 August 2009 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
what can he say, he's a dork 4 torque
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 August 2009 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link
ha, he liked The Foot Fist Way?
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 August 2009 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
who'd a thunk it, armond white and i have something n common
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 August 2009 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
other than us both being raving lunatics, obv.
― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 August 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Torque in the theater.
It was fucking stupid.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nypress.com/article-18530-hell-hath-obvious-limits.html
The Ting Tings offer a sassy refutation of ignominy and alienation—themes that ought to be at the heart of Hellboy's story of a housebroken miscreant (standing in for the formerly misunderstood teen). The Golden Army is too snarkily satisfied with its illusion of subversion to actually examine the issue of inherited cynicism (Hellboy fights a evil scion who wants to usurp his father's throne and command an underground army—"a harbinger of death, the unstoppable tide"). This idea was also handled better in Adam Sandler's 2000 Little Nicky, a sketch-comedy revue about an individual (the son of Satan) discovering his own morality. The Ting Tings' exuberance celebrates what Sandler's persevering half-demon/half-angel desired. Their cheekiness, like Nicky's irreverence, subtly reconsiders modern ethics and identity—themes Hellboy fails to accomplish.
― i have the new brutal truth if you want it (latebloomer), Friday, 21 August 2009 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone read any of gary indiana's fiction books? i just started horse crazy, enjoying it. also bought three month fever on a recommendation, the one about andrew cunanan.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link